An Improved COCOMO based Model to Estimate the Effort of Software Projects

Subject Areas : Project Management

Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri ¹ , Mahboubeh Dorosti ²

1 - Kerman Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity
2 - Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2015-12-04 Accepted : 2016-02-11 Published : 2016-09-01

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